Drivers across Ballina are rushing to fill their tanks as fuel prices surge and rumours of possible shortages spread online.<\/p>\n
But the spike has also sparked ugly scenes at some service stations, with staff reportedly abused by frustrated motorists.<\/p>\n
Long-time former Ballina service station operator Mark Ross says workers are being blamed for price rises they have no control over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the fault of the people working there,\u201d Ross said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of angry people out there, but they shouldn\u2019t be taking it out on the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prices for unleaded petrol have climbed by as much as 30 cents per litre across the Northern Rivers in the past week.<\/p>\n
Many drivers say they are trying to fill up early in case prices climb further.<\/p>\n
Others have been searching for the cheapest outlets across the region.<\/p>\n
Prices vary widely even within short distances.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mobil West Ballina was the cheapest outlet in town on Sunday, selling E10 petrol for 207.5 cents per litre.<\/p>\n However drivers willing to travel a little further could still find petrol below the $2 mark.<\/p>\n Outlets in Alstonville and Wollongbar were both listing unleaded at 199.9 cents per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers across Ballina are rushing to fill their tanks as fuel prices surge and rumours of possible shortages…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[172626,172627,79,62335,172628,172629,179,18,172630,172631,172632,19,16886,17,172633,172634,172635,172636,172637,172638,172639,172640,172641,172642],"class_list":["post-374164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ballina-news-daily","tag-ballina-shire-council","tag-business","tag-csiro","tag-damien-maher","tag-disaster-ready-fund","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-flood-mitigation","tag-graham-askey","tag-hydrodynamic-modelling","tag-ie","tag-insurance-premiums","tag-ireland","tag-jai-vaze","tag-janelle-saffin","tag-kevin-hogan","tag-lismore","tag-nema","tag-northern-rivers-floods","tag-nsw-reconstruction-authority","tag-our-future-northern-rivers","tag-richmond-river","tag-sharon-cadwallader"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116193189262203782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}